A new study claims people who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 face a substantially higher risk of getting in a car crash than vaccinated people, which could justify higher insurance rates for the unvaccinated, prompting critics to pounce on the study’s flaws and researchers’ motives.
People who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 face a substantially higher risk of getting in a car crash than vaccinated people, which could justify higher insurance rates for the unvaccinated, according to a study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine.
The study didn’t find that being unvaccinated causes traffic accidents. Instead, the researchers postulated that there is a psychological reason why “vaccine hesitant” people “might also neglect basic road safety guidelines.”
John Campbell, Ph.D., a nurse educator, and comedian and political commentator Russell Brand were among the critics who took issue with the study, citing its flaws and questioning the motives behind doing such a study.
Others were more blunt. Norman Fenton, Ph.D., a professor of risk information management at Queen Mary London University, accused the journal of publishing “a study in stupidity.”
Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist at the University of California San Francisco tweeted:
🤣 this also repeats the dumb idea that primary care doctors should specially counsel unvaccinated people about driving 🤣
How stupid! Will that lower accidents? (pure speculation)
This only tells you that MMWR obs studies of VE are 💩https://t.co/6uUG7On3LM
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) December 14, 2022
Researchers investigated correlation — not causation
The study’s authors analyzed encrypted government data from 178 Ontario medical centers and more than 11.2 million residents of the province, of whom 84% had received a COVID-19 vaccine and 16% had not as of July 31, 2021.
Among the study cohort, 6,682 people needed emergency care because they were involved in a serious car accident — either as a driver, a passenger or a pedestrian — during the one-month period the researchers analyzed.
Unvaccinated people accounted for 25% of the traffic accidents (1,682 cases), meaning they had a 72% increased risk of accidents relative to those who had taken the jab.
When researchers adjusted for other variables such as age, sex, socioeconomic status and other medical conditions, the relative increased risk for the unvaccinated dropped to 48%.
The researchers said their findings are significant because, “A relative risk of this magnitude … exceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users.”
Although the authors noted the study did not investigate or demonstrate any causal link between being unvaccinated and risky driving, they proposed several possible causes for the correlation they found.
They thought there could be “a distrust of government or belief in freedom that contributes to both vaccination preferences and increased traffic risks.”
Other explanations, the researchers said, might be “misconceptions of everyday risks, faith in natural protection, antipathy toward regulation, chronic poverty, exposure to misinformation, insufficient resources, or other personal beliefs.”
The authors concluded that “COVID vaccine hesitancy is associated with significant increased risks of a traffic crash. An awareness of these risks might help to encourage more COVID vaccination.”
‘This is ludicrous’
The researchers did not address numerous limitations in the data they presented, according to Campbell, who provided a full analysis of the study.
“The obvious response to that is to say, well this is ludicrous, which it is, but … [the] evidence needs to be unpacked,” said Campbell, an expert on vaccine administration.
During the study period, the unvaccinated were more likely to drive — and therefore at higher risk for accidents — yet the study did not account for differences in miles driven.
In Canada, for much of 2021, unvaccinated people could not use public transportation, which would have compelled them to drive more. Essential workers in non-healthcare settings who had to commute to work lived in neighborhoods with higher rates of COVID-19 and lower vaccination rates. Vaccinated people were more likely to work remotely or to be retired.
Contrary to the study’s implication that people in accidents were practicing “risky driving,” most cases were actually passengers or pedestrians. Of the 6,682 crashes, only 2,856 of those cases were drivers — 1,189 were passengers and 2,637 were pedestrians, whose accidents did not result from their driving practices.
Campbell reported that the study classified people as unvaccinated for 14 days after vaccination.
Given that the study lasted only a month, vaccinated people could have been characterized as unvaccinated for up to half of the study. If 602 people were misclassified in this way, the difference between the two groups disappears.
All deaths at the scene were excluded. If a cardiac or other event — possibly vaccine-related — caused the accident, it was not included in the study, Campbell said.
Major statistical flaws make study ‘a joke’
In a Twitter thread, Dr. Claire Craig, with the U.K.’s Queen’s College, University of Oxford, called the study “a joke,” pointing to major statistical flaws.
The researchers undercounted unvaccinated people because they compared two sets of data — the number of people who went to the hospital after an accident and the number of people in the government vaccination database. They did not account for unvaccinated people who are not in the government vaccination databases, Craig said.
Undercounting unvaccinated people skewed the numbers so it appeared that unvaccinated people were at consistently higher risk for every condition they measured for, according to Craig.
She concluded:
This table shows the problem clearly.
No matter which way you chop the data the risk is apparently increased by about the same amount.
The vertical line at point 1 should be picked up and lifted across to where all the dots are. pic.twitter.com/Q7Y7zQblcC
— Dr Clare Craig (not one of her impersonators) (@ClareCraigPath) December 13, 2022
Health data and the rise of biodigital surveillance
According to the study footnotes, the researchers accessed a large government dataset held at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, which they used to analyze risk by correlating vaccination status with socioeconomic information, detailed healthcare records and other data.
They concluded that “The observed risks might also justify changes to driver insurance policies in the future.”
According to a recent investigation by ProPublica, health insurance companies are increasingly collecting vast amounts of information to determine insurance costs on an individual basis.
ProPublica reported:
“With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans, including, odds are, many readers of this story.
“The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth. They’re collecting what you post on social media, whether you’re behind on your bills, what you order online.
“Then they feed this information into complicated computer algorithms that spit out predictions about how much your health care could cost them.”
Companies outside the narrow scope of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which prohibits healthcare providers from disclosing protected patient information — from data brokers to period-tracking apps — can and do legally sell people’s health-related information, from information about their surgical procedures to their mental health conditions.
These practices can help the industry boost profits by avoiding coverage for sick people.
But they are also part of a broader trend toward digital surveillance and control through the mass collection of people’s personal data and the creation of digital IDs.
Plans for digital IDs have been in the works for several years, but they gained traction during the pandemic.
The ID2020 Alliance, founded in 2016 with seed money from Microsoft Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco, and Gavi (a vaccine alliance founded by the Gates Foundation) claims to advocate in favor of “ethical, privacy-protecting approaches to digital ID,” with the mission of providing digital IDs for people worldwide by 2030.
The digital IDs would be tied to biometric data, demographic information, medical records, education data, financial data and more.
This year, Bill Gates announced $200 million more funding for digital ID projects globally.
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, these organizations advocated for using health and immunization records as a way to scale up digital IDs, an idea they also promoted at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Governments have already begun to use people’s health data to manipulate their behavior. In January, Quebec announced that it planned to place a significant “health tax” on unvaccinated people. During the pandemic, “vaccine passports” were widely required for access to public spaces.
Last month, leaders of the Group of 20 (G-20) issued a joint declaration promoting a global standard on proof of vaccination for international travel and calling for the establishment of “global digital health networks” that build on existing digital COVID-19 vaccine passport schemes.
Vaccine passports, digital identities, social credit systems, and central bank digital currencies together can form a system of digital control, computer scientist Aman Jabbi explained in a recent interview with ZeeMedia. Such a system depends on data collected through surveillance cameras, smart devices, and the increasing use of biometric data for everyday transactions.
“This is why it is all the more concerning that we are seeing again, through the process of commerce and convenience, new technology introduced that will give centralized Big Tech resources — which as you know are deeply interpolated with political and government agencies — the ability to garner more of your data.”
Warning about the conclusions of the study, he continued:
“So in a sense, you could see how a story saying that people who didn’t get vaccinated are causing car crashes while there are new investigations into the efficacy of those vaccines that were, as I recall, quite aggressively pushed means that we oughtn’t be marching open-hearted with our trousers down into the arms of data capture organizations even if they are saying that they are ultimately going to offer us other services.
“There’s enough evidence to suggest that these Big Tech platforms and data-capture giants operate in coordination with the government to push an agenda that is not beneficial to anybody but themselves.”
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Imbeciles.
It has gotten to the point where I view those with degrees in the same way the Romans looked at lepers. Stay away from them, there is something very wrong with them and it might be contagious.
Educating a fool is no different than giving a drunk coffee. You end up with a smart ass or a wide awake drunk…and who wants EITHER of those things?
Could not agree more.
Problem is, this has been the way “science” is done for many, many years. It’s usually a bit more subtle than this so-called “study”, but the basic formula for probably 90% of “science” these days is (1) come up with a conclusion you’d like to see, and (2) manipulate “data” and statistics to claim support for that conclusion.
The beauty of it is, they’re the only ones who would believe this crap.
It is far more likely that Covid vax brain fog is causing these wrecks. The unvaxxed still possess NORMAL reflexes and thought processes. It’s the vaxxed who can’t deal with compensating for their impairment. Tell me you haven’t noticed the extra long waits at traffic lights these last 3 years. The numbers of morons observed every time you leave the house.
Dear old Uncle Remus reminded us to NEVER give credence to any story beginning with “Study finds”. It’s all bullshit.
The one accident I was involved in, I was hit by a vaxxed driver yelling and looking at his kids in the back seat while navigating an intersection. I was 1st in line. The light turned green. I took off immediately, then got T boned in the right front tire by a much larger vehicle.
I think it’s cellphones causing delayed action at traffic lights.
They’ve been around for a lot longer than Covid or the vax. The variable is the vax. Surely you can see that, right?
What’s more dangerous than a brain fogged texter at a traffic light?
Q: “What’s more dangerous than a brain fogged texter at a traffic light?”
A: Joe Biden
not by much.
Definitely. There are just more of them in the past 3 years now that the old-school police have retired and the snowflake generation police are too terrified of being accused of something they didn’t do, so they just do nothing. A few years ago, traffic past my house complied with the speed limit. Today, 20 over and nobody around handing out lottery tickets, redeemable in traffic court.
I always wait a bit after a light turns green .The car in front of me was hit by a semi running a red light years ago. He saw green and went and died ,I now wait a few secs and see if anyone’s running the red now.
I do too…now. For 50 years it hadn’t been necessary. Now I see red light runners almost every day I go out…maybe 2 or 3 times a week. And the wrecks are getting more severe, like no effort was made to avoid or mitigate it at all.
In my experience, that ain’t “normal”…if such a word even applies any more.
We see them a lot more now, too. Just saw two in a row the other day.
Got bird seed this morning, One Red light Runner, One stopping for a green light, and one road rager driving down the center median to pass people. Oh yeah one ambulance racing to a victim. Yea that 14 day “unvaxxed side effect experiencing vaxxed” is a huge skew.
“Just two weeks to flatten the” . . .
evidence of a causal connection between vaxecution and death.
Saw a couple ragers myself this morning. Screw ’em. The only reason they pass me is because I let them. I love watchin’ ’em slam on the brakes. Still waiting to see the full on clown car pileup though. Only a matter of time I think.
Looks like ice in GA tomorrow. That ought to be good for a few laughs!
I JUST got back from a grocery run and you guessed it…someone managed to flip their vehicle completely over on its side, gas tank facing cross traffic. Cops standing around scratching their heads trying to figure out WTF was going on when that happened.
Good idea.
I normally push the car in front of me out into the intersection to test the water, bolt an old railroad tie to the front bumper of your truck, works great.
Truck drivers in big trucks can’t stop on a dime. Three times the distance is required, under perfect conditions. Most roads are not perfect.
Want to die really fast? Cut in front of a big truck and brake-check the driver. If you are lucky, all you will get is a screwed up back and neck with a vehicle that is several feet shorter.
Now armed to the teeth with dash cams pointing in every direction, most truck drivers have just acclimated themselves to the fact that somebody is going to end up looking like Wile E. Coyote after getting run over by a truck and use the dash cam as evidence against the brain dead drivers with a self-inflicted death wish.
Me too. If you ride a motorcycle, this becomes automatic.
My sister had a vaccident after her first MRNA vax. Even though she never passed out at the wheel before the vax. She survived it . But is now uses a walker permanently.
Just curious was this accident after the vax but not past the 14 day waiting period to be counted as vaxxed? Sorry about your sister, my whole family is jabbed. They are chronically sick all the time now.
Of course they do not want to talk about it. This would mean they are wrong, and worse yet they would have to face reality. No idea. Sister also passed out in a super market parking lot when BILaw went in to by groceries, and that was on the same day of the booster.
Thanks for info, Sorry to hear. The reality is scary. Driving anywhere is risky, the people seem so out it sometimes. My Family is hiding their medical issues. It’s really unfortunate. Because they don’t want any help.
But you are too important to look both ways and make sure no other mental defect like you wasn’t coming? A green stop and go light doesn’t automatically mean that it is safe to proceed. The stop and go light does not know of what is going on outside the box where it exists. It is just an old-school 8-Bit computer, such as an old Apple II or Radio Shack Model I. Are you claiming an 8-Bit computer is far more intelligent than reality dictates? In that case, then Elon Musk is correct and you need a hole drilled into your head for one of those computer chips installed into your brain so you won’t have to think logically.
So how come Asian women aren’t targeted for higher rates?
Maybe they’re in cahoots with the joooos?
/s.
Because CAUSING accidents that you simply drive away from ignorantly, isn’t something that shows up on your driving record.
Here in the Shitcago land area you have a higher chance of getting into an accident with an ignorant nigger. The chances you will be hid by a stoned,drunk uninsured negro motorist are astronomical. Also compound that with the nigger scourge of stolen and hijacked cars . Odds are whitey gonna pay for it all lol.
Guess I got lucky. I got hit by a white asshole WITH insurance. Upgraded my Ford Fusion to a Cadillac CTS wagon. Very low mileage and a 5 year bumper to bumper extended warranty. Best of all I own the pink slip! If I had his address I’d add him to my Christmas card list!
You did get lucky . We now have black kids from Shitcago coming to Indiana to steal kias and Hyundai’s ,also catalytic thefts are out of control.
Sooner or later the opportunity to put a stop to those shenanigans will present itself. Probably about the time the EBT well runs dry and the cops stop getting paid.
Because being jabbed and wearing a mask that reduces your oxygen while driving alone in a car is certainly safer than being clot free and driving while breathing. As if obeying a stop sign is the same as obeying the criminal mass murderers in your own government.
I will wager that this nonsense was written by vaccinated people.
The Babylon Bee is now engaged in scientific research, apparently.
Wet sidewalks cause rain, too.
This Federal government and most corporations are run by communist Elite so if they say unvaxxed people are causing wrecks, it’s really the unvaxxed that are NOT causing the wrecks. PS: I believe small aircraft accidents are way up since the CV19 Shots.
This ‘study’ cost the government $50k.
That’s how little it costs to buy science in Canada.
But how many Canadians will ever know anything about this? Not one will ever read the study or about the study. Yes, it is a joke but the MSM will repeat it until it is accepted as part of the ‘science’.
Those insurance companies need all the money they can get their hands on with the leap in all cause mortality.
They forgot the most important outcome of this study: People who die from blood clots and myocarditis have a zero percent chance of getting in an auto accident.
See? The vax makes society safer. Especially the children. Time mandate monthly boosters. Hey – administer them at the top of highway onramps!
Fewer people means fewer carbon emissions. That is the kind of thought that brings smiles to these assholes faces.
Given enough time 100% of those in traffic accidents will be the unvaccinated because all the vaccinated will be too sick to drive or are dead.
Unless they happened to be driving a car or piloting a small aircraft when they die.
Study find that “study” is total bullshit.
Wondering if this is a way for the insurance industry to recover their losses from all the vaxxed deaths? Make the unvaxxed pay because they can. Well they can try. I think lawsuits would fly.
Since the 1964 Civil Riots Bill, Race has become the most important characteristic in our Society and is accounted for and measured in every aspect of our lives; except: Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Car Insurance, Property Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Workers Compensation Insurance, Social Security Insurance, etc.
Not only do grandmas have to worry about catching covid from me but now they have to worry that I am coming at them with my car.
Sneeze twice for Nana!
Then call me Evil Fucking Kneivel.
Evel
Having C19 i agree driving was tougher, more dangerous, the brain fog, but not from not having a shot that doesn’t work, but from the symptoms, after effects of Covid itself, and i had it hard, for a long time. I find myself in the interesting position of having had it twice before the shot was widely available, and i’m not dead yet.
And have to ask myself why would i need the shot, it doesn’t stop the virus, i did the math and decided it would be better to catch the disease and take my chances, there’s no way to avoid it over time, masks won’t stop it. Paid attention, the risks of an untested experiment were too great, just adding to the risks after having survived.
And most everything we were being fed was bullshit.
Will add i’ve had it at least a third time, March of this year, but it barely phased me this last time, my immune system has caught up , to a virus i had no natural immunity to before.
At this point all i can do is be grateful i didn’t keel over or take matters to the next level or take that bloody shot.
Cognitive thinking and the ability to understand logic are becoming very rare abilities in our modern world. In the US the vast majority of people have become complete idiots. That is a scary thing.
I just want the shooting to start already.
Next headline from the mainstream media:
“Unvaccinated less likely to be vaccinated than the vaccinated”.
To be filed under “No shit Sherlock”.
In the next few years, we’ll be seeing lots of vaxxers crashing cars after dying of heart attacks.
And pedestrians being hit on sidewalks by them.
In those videos of Tim Truth reading the vaers reports there were many, many saying the patient said they barely got home, or almost passed out, had to pull over etc.
He was searching for hallucinations/psychoses and nightmares and these showed up- wonder how many would with a directed search.
Dirty hands make clean money
Somebody went off the road and got stuck right in front of our house today. Very snowy and cold. It’s a state hwy and he must’ve called his friends ( one with like a big delivery truck) to pull him out. They couldn’t and had this big truck across the hwy etc!! Logging trucks don’t slow down in this weather…
Anyway a deputy or hwy patrolman (unmarked) came and ran them off and a tow truck came. Vaxxxed or just young and broke perhaps.
Sounds like a reach. Snowy roads cause lots of accidents.
Mental masturbation as a team sport … and the Canadian team will likely win the next Olympics in that category …
We really are in clown world aren’t we.